Volkswagen Touareg Redesigned To Look More Like The Scirocco Hot Hatch

Tweaks to the have been announced at the Auto China show in Beijing, with engines improved to meet new emissions standards and a new lower grille to match its badass hot-hatch sibling the Scirocco. In Volkswagen's own words; "the lower air inlet now forms a stylized "A" instead of a...

May 4, 2025

What's This Home-Made Pickup Truck Doing In Such A Nice Neighborhood?

Somebody wants $1,200 for this Buick LaSabre frankenpickup in the San Francisco Bay Area. No details on what sick and twisted experiements lead to the vehicle's creation, it's only specified that the "radio, heater all work." Hat tip to Hey It's Robert! Images from ...

May 4, 2025

2015 Subaru Outback: This Is It

The 2015 Subaru Outback has shed the outgoing fifth generation's gentle curves of baby fat and exposed an imposing, chiseled face. The new model has a better engine and more space for your dogs, slack lines, commercial quantities of kale, and whatever else you hippies carry in your off-roady wagons....

May 4, 2025

2015 Honda HR-V Is A Sleek Compact Car With A Lift Kit

One of the world's cutest SUVs, the , is coming to America this winter in the form of its next redesign; a -esque baby utility wagon sitting on the compact platform. Honda dialed the swoopiness way up on the new HR-V, moving from a bubbly body to a smoothly sharp...

May 4, 2025

The Ram Power Wagon Is Garg-Godam-Gantuan

A family of six and all their worldly possessions could fit in a . Or underneath it just as easily. It won't be much for tight, technical trails but it should be able to in the open. ...

May 4, 2025

Every Easter Egg On The 2015 Jeep Renegade

We've been all over the , heard and are going to be crammed into its . But since loves to remind us about their seven-slatted off-road heritage, let's see if we can find every easter egg on their new mini SUV. The metal fuel can-style "X" marking is so pervasive...

May 4, 2025

How Ford Crammed A Mind-Blowing Movie Theater Into A Van

From the outside it looks like a normal , but on the inside there's a private movie theater decked out with its own tablet-controlled media server, drop-down screen, high-def projector, and ridiculously nice seating. Oh, and did we mention the built-in bar? You're gonna want the bar. Our man out...

May 4, 2025

The Black Knight Transformer: Part Truck, Part Helicopter, All Bad Ass

This January, a military tech outfit called Advanced Tactics said they'd build a truck-helicopter hybrid that could fly just as easily as it could motor down the highway. "Never work," you say? Well, hold on to your brainballs because this mo' fucking trucklocopter just went for its first flight. Besides...

May 4, 2025

Nothing Sells A Minivan Like Gymnastic Burlesque Dancers And Liquor

"Hey, Collins, why don't you just get out of here and go to the launch party. That should be low-key and keep you out of trouble for a few hours." Erroneous, erroneous on both accounts. But I'm a team player so when Papa Jalopnik tells me to go to a...

May 4, 2025

Where To Watch Desert Racing On TV This Weekend

The off-road race will be on at9 PM EST tomorrow, April 20th. If you can't catch it, the broadcast runs again at 2AM, 5AM, and 4PM on the 21st and 9AM and 10PM on the 27th. ...

May 4, 2025

Off-Roading Jeep's Prototype Pickup Truck

Jeep showcased the Nukizer concept at the 2010 ; and now we've finally got a chance to see what it can do off-road. The Nukizer was a modern rendition of the Jeep Kaiser trucks that replaced the Dodge Power Wagon as America's military pickup for the Vietnam War. The concept...

May 4, 2025

RC Backflips Over A Life-Sized SUV With A Kid On The Roof

Some little rascals got a Traxxas Stampede RC truck to backflip over a life-sized Nissan Xterra and a dude standing on top of it with a lacrosse stick. Extra points for RC-mounted GoPro footage! is our excuse to play with toys weekdays at 11:30AM EST. ...

May 4, 2025

New Nissan Frontier Promised For 2015, May Arrive With An SUV Sibling

The is well-ripe for a redesign and the company says it's finally coming next year. I wouldn't expect levels of futurism, but Nissan planning to prioritize styling while staying close to the current truck's dimensions. Since the Xterra sits on the same F-Platform, it's logical to assume the SUV will...

May 4, 2025

What Could Heads-Up Displays Do For Trucks?

Land Rover came up with a wicked Heads-Up Display application with their "" concept, but I think this technology has even more truck-specific potential. How could an HUD help trucks manage cargo, tow, go off-roading and do everything else we love trucks for? I'm evaluating a 2014 BMW X5 this...

May 4, 2025

Can You Find A Ford Bronco II In Bulgaria?

A reader from Europe wants to buy the SUV Ford called "The 4-Wheel Drive Vehicle For People Who Like To Visit Wildlife Sanctuaries." I'm not sure why someone in the land of abundant diesel-manuals would choose a Bronco II as their off-roader, but I bet the Truck Yeah! brain trust...

May 4, 2025